OBJECTIVE To examine the association between depression and clinical outcomes in heart failure (HF) in a community cohort. PATIENTS AND METHODS HF patients in Minnesota, United States completed depression screening using the 9-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) between 1st Oct 2007 and 1st Dec 2011; patients with PHQ-9≥5 were labelled "depressed". We calculated the risk of death and fi...

Differences in attachment style have been linked to both emotion regulation and psychological functioning, but the emotion regulatory mechanism through which attachment style might impact symptoms of depression and anxiety is unclear. The present study examined the explanatory role of emotion dysregulation in the relation between adult attachment style and symptoms of depression and generalized...

A REVIEW OF SLEEP DISORDERS IN DEPRESSION Summary. Aims. The main aims of this study are, on the one hand, to report on the current state-of-the-art in research into the characteristics of sleep in depression and, on the other hand, to analyse the theoretical and practical implications of these results. Method. We review the main findings regarding the sleep disorders linked with depression and...

We investigate the value-add of topic modeling in text analysis for depression, and for neuroticism as a strongly associated personality measure. Using Pennebaker’s Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) lexicon to provide baseline features, we show that straightforward topic modeling using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) yields interpretable, psychologically relevant “themes” that add valu...

Diathesis-stress models of depression suggest that low self-esteem and stressful events jointly influence the development of depressive affect. More specifically, the self-esteem buffering hypothesis states that, in the face of challenging life circumstances, individuals with low self-esteem are prone to depression because they lack sufficient coping resources, whereas those with high self-este...

Genetic polymorphism contributes to variation in response to drug treatment of depression. We conducted three independent 6-week treatment studies in outpatients with major depressive disorder (MDD) to develop a pharmacogenomic model predicting response and nonresponse. We screened candidate genomic markers for association with response to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). No pat...

Before and during the 2010 Soccer World Cup, participants made probabilistic forecasts for the outcomes of the tournament. We examine the relationship between depression levels and performance in this real-world forecasting task. Across two different waves of predictions, for both continuous and categorical classifications of depression, and with multiple measures of prediction accuracy, we fin...

Although individual differences exist in how people respond to positive affect (PA), little research addresses PA regulation in people with anxiety disorders. The goal of this study was to provide information about responses to PA in people with symptoms of social phobia, generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, agoraphobia, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. The tendency to dampen PA and ...